This Saturday night on WRCO FM 100.9 we will crank out more great music from the fifties through the eighties. I will be in the studio for 6 hours of requests and trivia. We will play a few of my favorite tracks from some great record albums that were released in 1975. While still just a 'wee-Nee', I was a record buying phenom! I was starting to make the conversion from buying single hits on 45 r.p.m. records to purchasing complete albums. I had to decide whether I wanted the vinyl copy or the cassette version. Some of the favorite albums blasting out of my speakers were..A Night At The Opera by Queen. The Marx brothers were my heroes and here was this English band naming its albums after the brothers Marx movies! The first time I heard Bohemian Rhapsody, it floored me...Born To Run-Bruce Springsteen. I heard the title cut on WRCO in the Fall of 1975. The opening drum beat is still exciting forty years later. I wanted the Wilson sisters to baby sit me and sing Crazy On You and Magic Man. The album Dreamboat Annie was a 1975 purchase for me at Shultz Brothers Variety Store in Richland Center. The Kiss album Alive came out in 1975. A friend of mine loaned me his copy and I became an instant fan. Many of my music friends have made fun of me for liking Kiss over the years. While their lyrics may not have been as deep as Bob Dylan's, the music was fun. I still maintain that Alive is one of the best 'live' rock and roll albums ever! Other great albums from '75 include: The Eagles-One Of These Nights, Paul Simon-Still Crazy After All These Years, Fandango!-ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac-Fleetwood Mac, and Venus And Mars-Paul McCartney & Wings.

Join me for some of the greatest music ever cut on vinyl this Saturday night during WRCOs' Those Were The Days.

This Saturday night on WRCO FM 100.9 our old rock n' roll radio show (Those Were The Days) will highlight hits from November of 1973. It may have been one of Top Forty radios' last hurrahs. There was so much good music blasting out of those 3 inch radio speakers! We will stop and park in that moment for a time. The show will begin with a guest disc jockey. Al Hushka has been a long time staff member of WRCO. You have heard his voice for years reading advertisments during our programs. As of last week, he is now semi-retired. Al began his radio career with stints in Viroqua and Prairie Du Chien. Hear 'Cousin Al' remember his days behind the mic when many of the most memorable Those Were The Days' tunes were brand new. Join Al and me for memories of radio the way it used to be. The request line will be open between 9 pm and Midnight. We will also throw a few trivia questions your way. Since I don't text or tweet, I hope you will call me Saturday night during Those Were The Days.

Halloween has not been the same night as our Those Were The Days radio show very often during the past twenty-nine years. That means we will have a real bash this Saturday night. I will be in the studio to hand out song treats and a few tricks. There are so many records from the fifties through the eighties that have a haunting theme. We will be spinning a few of those. I am sure that the Witch Doctor and the Purple People Eater will stop. We will do the Monster Mash with Bobby 'Boris' Pickett. The song originally hit in 1962 and made it back to the charts in the late sixties. It made another comeback to pop radio in the Summer of 1973 and it was a top ten hit. Request a song with a Halloween theme or ask for anything that made the Billboard pop charts during the first thirty-five years of rock and roll. Play trivia and join the Solid Gold dancers dance team this Saturday night. Those Were The Days is heard every Saturday night between 6 pm and Midnight.

During the fifties through the eighties there were many songs with titles about life and living. We will play a few of those this Saturday night during WRCOs' Those Were The Days. Songs will include: My Life by the Beatles, What Is Life from George Harrison, Billy Joel's My Life, Walk Of Life-Dire Straits and many more. We will flash back to this weekend in 1977 and the request line will be open during the second half of the show. Celebrate life and living with good friends and WRCO FM 100.9 this Saturday night.

The Fall of 1966 was one of the greatest times for pop culture. We still recall vividly the toys, shows, movies, and music after all these years. Star Trek and The Monkees debuted on tv that Fall. The Monkees were near the top of the charts with 'Last Train To Clarksville', Tommy Roe was singing ' Hooray For Hazel', and Neil Diamond was having one his first successes with ' Cherry, Cherry' . The 1966 Christmas catalog was coming out and young Philip was drooling over cool toys including: Mr. Potato Head, Frosty the Sno-Cone Maker, Hoppity Hooper Game, Super Ball, and Batman bath tub toys. My friend Hal Lifson even wrote a book some years ago about all the fun stuff from 1966. I hope you will tune in for another Those Were The Days radio show on WRCO FM 100.9 this Saturday night. Your requests will be welcome and we will have a trivia question each hour that will make you stop and think. Become a Solid Gold dancer this Saturday night. Keep that transistor radio close to your ear and hear some fun stuff!